Sully tracksite: Norian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Grallatoridae
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Grallator sp.
Hitchcock 1858
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1 individual | ||||||
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Reptilia
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? Pseudotetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1965
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3 individuals | ||||||
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? Tetrasauropus sp.
Ellenberger 1970
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1 individual | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales |
| Coordinates: | 51.4° North, 3.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° North, 0.7° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late Triassic |
| Stage: | Norian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Norian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 227 - 208.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Mercia Mudstone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 222914 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-10-28 15:25:08 | Last modified: | 2021-10-28 15:25:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-10-28 15:25:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 78434. | M. G. Lockley, M. King, S. Howe and T. Sharp. 1996. Dinosaur tracks and other archosaur footprints from the Triassic of South Wales. Ichnos 5:23-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |